 | Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States by Sharon Smith
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $6.87 Want to understand what workers in the U.S. did and what was done to them? It helped me to fight better and more consistently when i understood how things got to be the way they are. The lessons from inspiring victories, as well as heroic and ugly defeats laid bare. outstanding work. She writes a great weekly column for Socialist Worker newspaper.
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 | The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document by Karl Marx
Buy new: $9.60 / Used from: $5.00 Simply the theory of the victory of the international working class. Want to see your fight for a 5 minute break in a world historical context? It'll help you win. Like democracy? Want to see the end of all oppression and exploitation? Then this is the book for you. The parallel notes and short bonus materials are clarifying. He writes regularly for International Socialist Review.
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 | A Troublemaker's Handbook 2: How to Fight Back Where You Work--and Win!: How to Fight Back Where You Work--and Win!
Buy used from: $24.24 Let's get down to brass tack-tics. This is THE How to Manual for Fighting back where you Work and Winning. From the great folks at Labor Notes.
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 | Teamster Rebellion by Farrell Dobbs
Buy new: $19.00 / Used from: $16.50 How a fight for pay and conditions erupted into a working class takeover of Minneapolis told by a leading participant. Shows how ordinary peoples' creativity and solidarity can not only win reforms, but pose a revolutionary democratic alternative to being ruled by a handful of parasites. A classic.
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 | No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border by Justin Akers Chacn
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $6.88 We're all in this together. Here's the proof that undocumented migrant workers have the same interests and enemies as the 'native' workers. And if we act otherwise, we're sealing our own doom.
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 | The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $5.00 Ok, time to kick back and relax with some beautiful prose and see Tom Joad in the eyes of every fellow laborer.
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 | U.S. Labor and the Vietnam War by Philip S. Foner
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $5.00 Many attacks on working people occur off the job. We must have as broad a vision as our bosses. The Hardhats attacked the anti-war Hippies, right? Wrong. Working class people were at the forefront of the struggle to end the war, at demos, from within the military, and when they went on strike. A hidden history we need to re-establish.
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 | Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam by Christian G. Appy
Buy new: $21.95 / Used from: $2.11 War is when the rich hire half of us to kill the other half. This can be our stupidity or a source of our strength. Appy goes through how working people were made to fight and how some turned their guns around. This book goes well with Soldiers in Revolt by David Cortwright.
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